Connections, Crime Rackets And Networks Of Influence Down Under
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Cheaters
"The Honest Conman" (aka Nicholas J Johnson) used to do a warning segment on scams and frauds on ABC Local Radio, but it was a pleasant surprise to find he'd written a heist / scam novel. Needless to say his debut novel, CHASING THE ACE, reads like the author knows a lot about the subject...Read more
Darkest Place
After a decade of tragedy and pain, Carly Townsend wants to start over. Her dream is shattered when she is woken in the dead of night by a man standing next to her bed, silently watching her. Yet there is no way an intruder could have entered the apartment.
With police doubting...Read more
Australia, The First Hundred Years
Australia the First Hundred Yeas being a facsimile of Volumes 1 and 2 of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1888 was edited by the Hon. Andrew Garran, MA, LLD, MLC. The Picturesque Atlas was designed to give a graphic and summarised conception of Australasian History and life from the...Read more
Bring Larks And Heroes
This outstanding novel is set in a remote British penal colony, late in the 1790s. Thomas Keneally's evocative writing gives us searing insight into the sun-parched settlements of hungry transports and corruptive soldiers. But this is not an 'historical' novel in the usual sense. It is the...Read more
Bright Air
She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock . . . heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now...Read more
Fat, Fifty & F***Ed!
Martin Carter is having a crook day. His home life's a misery, he's been retrenched by the bank and everyone's forgotten his birthday. But a million-dollar payroll, a pistol, and a split-second decision change everything.
Hurtling north on a motorcycle with the intriguing Faith...Read more
A Dustbin of Milligan
My son has asked me to write the "blurb" for this book. What can I say? When he was a lad. he showed a natural inclination to write so I sent him to Eton, and by the time he was 21 he had mastered the Alphabet. He took to travelling everywhere by pram - said it made him look younger. In...Read more
Dragon Mountain
This action-packed adventure novel features unforgettable characters and dark deeds, murder, kidnapping, and drug dealing, in an exotic Asian setting.
Captain Jack Robertson, a senior pilot for Air American, is monitoring the Burmese opium trade when a regional drug lord...Read more
The Spiral
Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targetted attack by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant.
With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma...Read more
Disenchantment
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See Nothing, Say Nothing
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Angels in the Architecture
In a secret chamber uncovered by a fire that nearly destroys the nineteenth-century chapel at Archangels University, architect Harriet Darling finds a skull. The police have a body and murderer in mind, and on campus, rumours are rife. But Harriet wants to save the chapel from further harm...Read more
Before I Let You Go
Sisters Lexie and Annie haven’t seen each other in years. The path of addiction has taken Annie to some dark places, whilst her older sister Lexie has managed to strive ahead with her medical career and is looking forward to soon tying the knot with her doctor fiancé. Lexie has had her...Read more
Black Widow
The first of September was a special day for schoolchildren in Beslan, traditionally celebrated as the 'Day of Knowledge'. But after September 2004 the day would be remembered for all the wrong reasons, when a group of terrorists took hostages at Beslan's School Number One.
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Bite of the Lotus
From the bestselling author of 'The Webber Agenda' and 'Worst Nightmares' comes a thrilling thriller set in Washington, Moscow, Sydney, and Hanoi. Set against the backdrop of the US Presidential race and global money laundering, this is the story of a father's relentless pursuit for a...Read more
Connie's Secret
On 4 February 1939, Connie Sommerlad was brutally butchered and her brother left for dead in their family farmhouse in rural Tenterfield.
It was a murder that would rock the tight-knit community; a murder made all the more shocking by the fact that their assailant was a local...Read more
Dangerous Waters
Joshua and his cousin Zoe see two men fighting and hear a gunshot. The police believe the murder is linked to armed robberies in the area. The cousins decide to investigate, which will be exciting, but are they safe from harm?
Dangerous Waters was a Children's Book...Read more
The Leap
A white-knuckle ride into a nightmarish outback setting, where a man searching for mercy encounters a town baying for violent vengeance. A pulse-pounding literary thriller with a stunning final twist.
`Think three-fifths of the way to fuck-all-...Read more
Forensics
A fingerprint identifies a serial poisoner, a strange indentation in a caravan panel proves a hit-run driver's guilt, and a mass DNA screening flushes out a brutal criminal. Vikki Petraitis has interviewed Australian police from Forensics, Fingerprints, Criminal Investigation Units and...Read more
The Hunted
Where does the adventure end . . .
and the nightmare begin?
Frank owns a service station on a little-used highway. His granddaughter, Allie, is sent to stay with him for the summer, but they don't talk a lot.
Simon is a...Read more
Murder Brief
Ambitious criminal defence barrister Robyn Palmer gets her first big break when she's briefed as junior counsel in a high-profile murder trial. Unfortunately, her leader has lecherous designs and their client looks guilty as hell. However, nothing is going to stop her starring in the...Read more
Pine Creek
On a bitter winter’s night in Pine Creek, 1989, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed.
It’s the last time she will see him alive.
In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching...Read more
Boy Swallows Universe
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter.
It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but...Read more
Duty Free
When is doing what is right for world peace wrong? Fourteen year-old Sam is about to find out when her mother tries to smuggle scientific documents out of the wrong hands in China.Read more
The Registrar
Dedicated and ambitious, Emma Swann is about to start a gruelling year as a surgical registrar at the prestigious Mount teaching hospital. She's excited to join her adored older brother Andy in pursuing the same career as their father, an eminent surgeon who made his name at The Mount....Read more
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Seek
Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London claiming to be Dr Henry Jekyll. Only Mr Utterson, Jekyll’s faithful lawyer and confidant, knows that he must be an impostor – because Jekyll was Hyde.
But as the man goes about charming...Read more
The Madness Locker
On Christmas Day, 1986 a seventy-year-old widow’s body was discovered inside a wheelie bin in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Despite a long and intensive investigation, the police fail to unearth a motive or identify a suspect. Lacking any clues, the police file it as a cold case...Read more
Still House
Situated in a beautiful setting abutting the Balarang waterways and located on an acre of natural bushland, this three-bedroom country home is full of promise, character and potential. Featuring private access to the many splendours of Balarang Creek, this idyllic property is perfect for...Read more
Sanctuary
Grace is a thief- a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items-stamps, watches-and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not...Read more